The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-07

ger and Constables Gardner and Baker
dangerously wounded. During the melee
which followed. Six negroes were shot
dead. Officer Conger. who received eleven
Ishpeming, Mich, special June 80: A. Kirk
patrick, an employe OF the Northwestern
road, returned to his home at Escanaba at
O'Clock this morning, Unexpectedly, and
found John Edwards IN bed with his Kirk
patrlck's wife, Kirkpatrick shot Edwards
e ss Is h h ebes the CAUSING a.aa
Kirkpatrick ID in Jail. All the parties In the
matter are well known. The affair caused
great excitement in Escanaba.
At Danville, Virginia, r. L. Cohen, was
shot to death in the street by Charles Say
lor, June o. Three other young men have
been arrested as accessories, and the bomi-
eide has created much excitement. 1t is
said that the shooting grew ont Of an affair
In which young woman was concerned,
and Saylor was heard to say that he would
at later hour on the street Saylor opened
fire on him and shot him to death.
The case Of Jake sharpe at New York
went to the jury on the 18th, and verdict
OF guilty was rendered. Sentence will be
pronounced July 13; The penalty is not
more than 10 years at hard labor or q flne Of
5000, or both. A new trial will be asked.
The verdict was reached on the first ballot
As Sharpe stepped to the walk on bis arrival
at the Jail, he said: 'BOys, now it's all over.
Aid. Fullgraff or any other alderman, and
had no hand in bribing the aldermen"
With this the old man seemed to break down.
Apainful tragedy occurred Sunday even
ing at Jacksonville, Ind. At II O'Clock that
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young lady 10 years OF age, received pistol
shot in the head, from which she expired at
an early hour Monday morning For year
past Miss Aldrich has been receiving atten-
tions from George Jetie who came from his
home in Louisville and called upon his
sweetheart Between 10 and II O'Clock the
parents of Miss Aldrich were awakened by
pistol shot in the parlor. They rushed to
the room and found their daughter In q
swoon upon the floor while blood was pouring
he was asleep with his head in the lap of
the girl when the deed occurred and that
she committed suicide. He Is now in jail.
A singular turn occurred in the trial of
Jake Sharp, at New York, on Tuesday.
failed, and when his counsel, Stickney, Par
sons and Mitchell told him to prepare to take
| the stand they found to their horror that
| Sharp was physical wreck, and that even
mentally he was not in hit condition to be q
/ witness. His memory was poor and he ac-
knowledged that he was too weak to stand
/ the strain Of q cross examination. Prof.
Loomis Sharp's doctor, visited him in the
court room and found that Sharp was in q
critical condition. Counsel came to the con-
clusion that to put him OH the stand would
| end in his death. 1t is the opinion of Sharp's
physicians that he cannot live longer than
ten days or two weeks. The slightest ex-
element will cause death, owing to the con-
dition of his heart. The trial was adjourned
for the day.
/ A jail delivery of 81 prisoners at Blackfoot,
Idaho. Sunday night, released two murder
| ers, horse thieves and other condemned
criminals Henry Nickerson one of the gang
was arrested q week ago and incarcerated
| in the Blackfoot jail on charge Of horse
| stealing. His wife, thirty five years OF age,
4 was allowed to visit him in jail. She won
the confidence of the guards to such an ex-
tent that she was not closely examined
She was an accomplice in the plot to release
| the whole gang. That evening she paid q
| visit to her husband, carrying q revolver,
which she gave to NickersOn. He promptly
| "held up" the guard by whom Mrs. Nicker-
| son had been accompanied to the cell.
Together the couple disarmed the guard,
and locked him up in Nickerson's 3 cell. They
| then, with the assistance Of other prisoners
disarmed the remainder of the watchmen,
locked them in the cells and escaped from
Jail.